Can we get you out of there, brother?
That's a policeman. Petar Lazovic asked the detained drug lord Darko Sarić, after the Court of Appeal in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing him to 15 years in prison for smuggling 5,7 tons of cocaine from South America to Europe.
They discuss it via the Sky app, the same day after the media announced the court decision.
"I'm reading now, brother. Pi... Say someone told me that someone died. We love you!", Lazović writes on November 9, 2020.
That day, Pljevljak was convicted as the organizer of a criminal group that smuggled 5,7 tons of cocaine during 2008-2009.
In its reasoning, the court cited aggravating circumstances, emphasizing that the criminal activity was "on a planetary scale" with large quantities of drugs.
"Now they've told me about a punishment, they tricked me, what are you going to do? We'll see what we can do," Šarić writes to police officer Lazović.
"Can we get you out of there, brother?" the then informal head of the police Special Operations Support Team asks him.
"I'll see what I can do, and let you know," replies Šarić.
"Come on, we're here. I'm here for you"...
"I know, my brother"...
I won't be online.
Two days later, Šarić, via the same, then encrypted application, sends a message to Lazović that he is going to send "the family down and I'm starting to do some things"...
"I don't believe we will have contact after that," he said on November 11, 2020.
Lazović asks him why he won't be able to hear from them anymore, is it because he won't be able to use the phone?
"Not just because of the phone, but when the fight starts they'll come and just take him."
"And you can get a new one? Maybe you can get it fixed. It means a lot to you," the policeman asks him.
"Hardly," the interviewee replies, stating that he is completely covered in his current location.
"And everything is new there and it will be the strictest regime"...
Lazović then asks him if he needs anything for his family, but he says he doesn't.
Šarić then explains that he is "fighting for a solution" to his status and that the toughest fight awaits him.
"I'm fighting for a solution now, but it's all harder now... They're lying to everyone, they've been lying to everyone. No need."
Lazović replies that his father, the then assistant police director, was also Zoran Lazovic "angry" at Šarić because he was deceived...
"I see they did, Z is really pissed off, 'angry at you' (I mean positively) that they tricked you, because they never trust you, when I told him, we were having lunch, he just got up and went home, he felt bad, he was sorry that they exposed you."
Šarić replies that Zoran is absolutely right about that.
"He's 100% right, there's nothing wrong with that, I looked stupid and fell for the pity party of getting everything out and it was a good story, I would have gotten out soon if it had been as agreed"...
Lazović asks him if there is anything he can do to help...
"This guy is doing this out of some complex and for no reason. Now we're leaving too. We don't need anything now, and we'll see later."
"Okay brother, that's scum, a sick man... I hope that after the rain the sun will warm you, because you deserve it, I hope something will happen," adds the former secret agent.
He was angry and cursed at Vučić before.
Vijesti previously published correspondence between the police officer and the drug lord at the end of July of that year, which shows that the decision of the Belgrade Higher Court to convict Šarić for money laundering enraged Lazović, who verbally lashed out at the Serbian president. Aleksandar Vučić, former head of the Serbian secret service BIA Alexander Vulin and a controversial businessman Can Subotić's pause...
"If I know what to write to you all day, I write 10 times, erase, that's it. Here I am now with Z. What to do, can anything be done, should I say anything to Z that needs to be done!!! ...F*ck them and Vučić for fucking Vulin and that vitamin from Can, I'm f*cking on them!!! So let them read and listen to everything, shit... Anyway, you have a younger brother who is ready for anything and we won't be here if we surrender to those gypsies," the police officer sent to Pljevljak on July 31, 2020, the day he was sentenced.
With the verdict that the policeman insulted and cursed the president of Serbia and a local businessman, Šarić was sentenced to nine years in prison for money laundering.
After the court decision, Lazović wrote to Šarić that his father Zoran Lazović knew that those with whom he had negotiated the verdict, allegedly Subotić, would betray him. He also said that he was very hurt that Pljevljak was in prison.
"And then Z spoke To the hare, don't do it, I swear to God, tell him - he'll betray him. You know who would never betray you if you came to my house with bloody hands! Buried both Zorans! Because I know that Z thinks so, that he loves you... We were at the Old House and Zećo told him that you told him to be careful and not to trust anyone. And that you would tell him some things when you see him. He's waiting for that and he's hurt that you're there. Why are you there at all," writes Petar Lazović.
Using the letter "Z" in communication, Lazović writes about his father Zoran, then assistant director of the Police Directorate for the fight against organized crime and corruption.
Before the verdict was pronounced, the younger Lazović persistently inquired about what decision would be made... He inquired about this with Šarić, but also independently of his correspondence with him, in a group chat with the head of the Kavački clan. Radoj Zvicer and a colleague from the clan and the service, a fugitive police officer Ljubo Milović.
He told them what the brother of the convicted Pljevljak told him about the agreement for the verdict. Dusko Saric.
The former secret agent was arrested on July 18, 2022, and the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) charges him with working for the mafia, instead of against it, as an officer of the National Security Agency, temporarily assigned to the police SBPOKK.
Zoran Lazović was arrested on April 14, 2024, and in one of the indictments, the SDT charges him with working for the mafia as the assistant director of the Police Directorate, rather than fighting it.
Zvicer and Milovic are on the run, and Šarić has been in custody since he surrendered to Serbian authorities in March 2014.
The most influential drug lord in the region
Darko Šarić, who for years was considered one of the most influential regional drug lords, faced two important verdicts before the Serbian judiciary in 2020.
In July of that year, the High Court in Belgrade, Special Department for Organized Crime, issued a first-instance decision finding Šarić guilty of laundering more than 20 million euros believed to have originated from cocaine smuggling.
According to the indictment, the money was "laundered" through a number of companies in Serbia and the region, and Šarić was sentenced to nine years in prison, with the note that the verdict was later overturned on appeal.
A few months later, a key decision by the Court of Appeal followed - on November 9, 2020, the verdict sentencing Pljevljak to 15 years in prison for organizing a criminal group that smuggled almost six tons of cocaine from Latin America to Europe was finally confirmed.
Šarić was convicted as the organizer of a group accused of smuggling a total of 5,7 tons of cocaine from South America to Western Europe during 2008 and 2009.
Šarić has been in custody since his surrender to Serbian authorities on March 18, 2014, and was previously on the run for five and a half years.
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